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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Patrick Lee.

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JOHN PATRICK LEE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 19, 1946 – June 19, 1967

Service record

John Patrick Lee, of La Crescenta, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 15

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Laboratory Specialist (92B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
June 19, 1946
Home of record
La Crescenta, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1967
Age
21
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1967; 42 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 15

Same unit, same day

From La Crescenta

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.